Maie Dove Day Explained

Maie Dove Day
Birth Name:	Maie Dove
Birth Date:	November 25, 1847
Birth Place:	Richmond, Virginia, U.S.
Death Place:	Danville, Virginia, US
Resting Place:	Green Hill Cemetery
Occupation:	Writer
Spouse:	William Chilton Day

Maie Dove Day (November 25, 1847 – March 3, 1923) was an American author and poet in post-Civil War Virginia.

Early life and family

Maie Dove was born in 1847 in Richmond, Virginia, the daughter of Samuel E. Dove and Ann Eliza Ricks.^{[1] [2]}

In 1872, she married William Chilton Day, a former assistant surgeon in the Confederate States Army and president of the Virginia State Medical Association. Their family resided in Danville, Virginia.

Adult life

Day authored several works which were published in the 1890s.^{[3] [4]} Her book of poetry The Blended Flags, written during the Spanish–American War, has remained in circulation and is in the permanent collection of the Library of Congress.^{[5] [6]}

Day was a charter member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and served as historian for the Danville chapter.^[7] She was a delegate to the organizations' 21st continental congress in 1912.^[8]

Day's works have been regarded by historians as an insight into post-Civil War southern womanhood.^{[9] [10]}

Published works

• The Blended Flags (1898)^{[11] [12] [13]}
• Virginia. Prehistoric and Antebellum (1899)^[14]
• Uncle Yorke (1899)

Notes and References

1. Book: Tyler, Lyon Gardiner . Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Under the Editorial Supervision of Lyon Gardiner Tyler . 1915 . Lewis Historical Publishing Company . en.
2. Book: Lineage Book of the Charter Members of the Daughters of the American Revolution . 1907 . Daughters of the American Revolution . en.
3. Book: Dewey . Melvil . Library Journal . Bowker . Richard Rogers . Pylodet . L. . Cutter . Charles Ammi . Weston . Bertine Emma . Brown . Karl . Wessells . Helen E. . 1899 . R. R. Bowker Company . en.
4. Book: Catalogue of Title Entries of Books and Other Articles . 1899 . U.S. Government Printing Office . en.
5. Turpie . David Charles . 2010 . The failure of reunion: The South and Republican foreign policy, 1898–1902 . . 746331035 .
6. Book: Flora . Joseph M. . MacKethan . Lucinda Hardwick . The Companion to Southern Literature: Themes, Genres, Places, People, Movements, and Motifs . 2001 . LSU Press . 978-0-8071-2692-9 .
7. Book: Proceedings of the Virginia State Conference . 1911 . en.
8. Book: Proceedings of the Continental Congress of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution . 1912 . en.
9. Ruoff . John Carl . 1976 . Southern womanhood, 1865–1920: an intellectual and cultural study . . 3231383 .
10. Book: Alderman . Edwin Anderson . Library of Southern Literature: Compiled Under the Direct Supervision of Southern Men of Letters . Harris . Joel Chandler . Kent . Charles W. . Smith . Charles Alphonso . Knight . Lucian Lamar . Metcalf . John Calvin . 1970 . Johnson Reprint Corporation . en.
11. Web site: Day, Maie Dove, Mrs The Online Books Page . 2024-05-07 . onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu.
12. Book: Clabough, Casey . Women of War : Selected Memoirs, Poems, and Fiction by Virginia Women Who Lived Through the Civil War . 2014 . Texas Review Press . 978-1-937875-50-3 . College Station . 890072332 .
13. Book: Swem, Earl Gregg . A Bibliography of Virginia ...: Titles of books in the Virginia State Library which relate to Virginia and Virginians, the titles of those books written by Virginians, and of those printed in Virginia, but not including ... published official documents . 1916 . D. Bottom, Superintendent of Public Printing . en.
14. Book: Day . Maie Dove . Virginia. Prehistoric and antebellum . 1899 . 99002516 .